OP = original poster, Rui > Sorry but I don't what/who OP is. > > And you still misunderstand. This is not a question about consensus over > some article, it is about normal human behaviour, and that it sometimes > is not there. If you haven't seen that happening I don't know where you > have been looking. I think you paint an idealistic and rosy picture of > the life in the Wikis that many users don't recognize. > > Regards, > Lars Gardenius > > > > > ________________________________ > Von: Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Gesendet: 18:05 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 > Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself > > > On 09/05/2013 11:49 AM, Lars Gardenius wrote: >> But if your child is mobbed at a Wiki when he/she tries to contribute, >> or your grandmother is being abused when she contributes to a Wiki, you >> want somewhere to turn. As said there is no such instance in the Wikis, >> there is noone responsible how people are treated and mistreated in the >> Wikis. > > You start from the presumption that those things usually or often happen > for reasons other than trying to push something through against > consensus. I have rarely seen that happening (and no, the OP is not an > example -- if anything he's an excellent counterexample). > > Mind you, there are often cases where the newbie is going against > consensus but doesn't know it. This is a case for user education. > > We /do/ have a problem with the way much of the community handles new > editors, but the existing mechanism in place /do/ work for the most part > (at least, for the more egregious examples). The rest is a cultural > problem that no enforcement body could fix; you don't make people nice > by beating them up. > > -- Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
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